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Monday, January 4, 2016

Is Your Moringa Tree Dead or Just In Winter Hibernation?

How do you tell if your Moringa tree is dead or just dormant?

In winter, after losing their leaves, Moringa trees look dead when they are dormant, so it is hard to tell at times. If the trees suffer a light frost, they may revive from the root itself in the spring, but more often they don't.

If your area experiences more than an occasional light frost and temps hovering at 32 degrees or colder, don't count on your tree surviving. Remember they are a tree that loves Florida type weather and climate.

Does mulching work like with berries?If you mulch them, as you do other plants, they will succumb to root rot. The mulch retains water, becomes saturated, which kills them.

If you could prevent the mulch from becoming wet and staying wet, that would probably help. The mulch must remain dry to protect the root from the cold but not cause it to rot.

Wrapping them with Christmas trees lights might help. They are a real challenge to keep alive in the winter.

Steps to determine if your tree is dead:

Check the trunk itself first. If the trunk does not feel firm and hard, it is probably frozen and will not live.

Check the main root and see if it is firm. The root will be soft and squishy if the root has rotted.

If the trunk is not firm in the soil, then root rot probably got it.

In the winter unless you have a sunny, warm room with good natural light, your soil will not dry out sufficiently to avoid root rot. My trees were outside in 20 gallon containers when we received a surprise drenching rain. I brought them inside but too late. It was cloudy for days and the soil never did dried out. They succumbed to root rot. The Neem seedlings in the same conditions did not die although they did not thrive. They have proved tougher than the Moringa seedlings.Your trees to survive in the house must have a warm room with good natural sunlight. Otherwise, the only answer is strong grow lights over them.

If you have a greenhouse, it would have to be heated for them to survive. This is for the majority of states that do get freezing temperatures in winter. Here in Tennessee we have less snow than most but the temperature has been hovering every night and morning at below 30 degrees. Even the back room of our house is too cold without heat for the plants. The quality and type of potting mix is extremely important. Avoid potting soil with moisture retention ingredients. In the winter it will kill your plants that need to dry out between watering. When we moved here last January, there were so soil choices just miracle grow here in this area. I could not believe how few options I had to pick from. That soil which normally I would never buy was the only thing available. That choice was the downfall of my Moringa and several other plants.

I hope this helps you prevent root rot with your plants. It seems here, that we will be mixing our own potting soil for this year. That is all for today.

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About Me

Freelance Writer, researcher, Master Herbalist, Health Counselor with 25 years of background in alternative medicine and herbs. Studied under the late Bernard Jensen, the father of Iridology and Keith Smith a Master Herbalist in Escondido, CA. Master Herbalist from Dominion Herbal College in Canada in 1986.

I have written articles for both my websites and AC Content over the
past few years.. The Yahoo writers platform closed down on Aug 1st,
2014. All contributing writers profiles and published articles were
removed.

Moringa and Healing Herbs (our business for a few years) was retired due to problems with growing the trees and getting acceptable product. It just didn't fit our new lives in TN. It took a long time to figure out what our new direction should be.

Greatly Blessed Medicinal Herbs and More is our new business started in Oct of this year, 2017, with a new business license. It reflects are new goals and interests including writing still.

My husband and I love to grow herbs and organic veggies in Indian Mound, TN. This is our permanent new home since Jan 13th, 2015. We live outside of Clarksville, TN in the rural area on 17 acres with a new garden, chicken house and yard, areas for herbs and elderberry bushes. It is so beautiful and green. We have so much rain and water here. Our well flows giving us such security. It is home now and it is our peace.

Since moving back to Tenn, we are now working on my business both online and through the community. Due to taking care of my husband's father, he became priority over the business the past three years. It has been a slow journey. We are a Independent representative for Nature's Sunshine Herbs. Along with that I look forward to our backyard nursery officially opening this Spring, 2018. I have always loved to grow things for our family and believe in growing as much as possible in your own family garden. The past two years we have slowly worked on projects moving toward that goal. The last step in this dream is to get our nursery license early in the new 2018 year. Once we have that we can begin in Spring selling plants. There could be delays so I will update this after we have our nursery license.

I no longer sell Moringa products or trees. I have not found them to grow here even as a house tree. I have decided to go in the direction of Moringa education rather than sales. Moringa has become popular. With popularity, comes both ethical sellers and sellers who are selling unsafe products. Some of the claims made for Moringa are not valid.

There needs to be someone who educates customers on Moringa with truth. I decided to move on with that goal. I stopped selling Moringa so I can educate people from an unbiased frame of reference.